drat. I sent this fromthe wrong email acct... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Allan Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 20, 2006 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mac OS X installers Panther vs Tiger To: William Kyngesburye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected]
On 3/20/06, William Kyngesburye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I've been considering Python mapscript. Things that have been > stalling me are: > > - waiting for the Universal MacPython > > - recent focus on getting everything Universal > > - I wasn't sure of the status/stability/feature parity of python > mapscript > > - I forgot (that universal thing, again, pushed a lot to the back of > my mind) > > I have built it before as a test. What's the problem with PROJ? My > installers include proj 4.4.9, is there a some build error? I don't think there's a build error, but to build python mapscript, simply using --with-proj=/usr/local/gislibs does not work. So I built proj and installed it into a dummy location so that the mapscript for python build would be able to pick it up. Allan > > > On Mar 20, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Allan Doyle wrote: > > > First of all, thanks for the great packages! > > > > I just voted for Tiger-only. But I'm a pretty small-potatoes user, > > I suspect your poll may get skewed by that kind of thing. > > > > However, as long as you're asking, I did run into trouble the other > > day not being able to build python mapscript after having installed > > all the Mac packages. I wrote this up: > > > > http://www.eogeo.org/Members/adoyle/ad-snippets/pymapscript-build > > > > If I did something really stupid, please let me know... > > > > Allan > > > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > "History is an illusion caused by the passage of time, and time is an > illusion caused by the passage of history." > > - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy > >
